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    An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar

    By Alan Rabinowitz

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    The jaguar is one of the mmysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cultures and the beliefs of early civilizations on two continents.

    In An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar, big-cat expert Alan Rabinowitz shares his own personal journey to conserve a species that, despite its past resilience, is now on a slide toward extinction if something is not done to preserve the pathways it prowls through an ever-changing, ever-shifting landscape dominated by humans. Rabinowitz reveals how he learned from newly available genetic data that the jaguar was a single species connected genetically throughout its entire range from Mexico to Argentina, making it unique among all other large carnivores in the world. In a mix of personal discovery and scientific inquiry, he sweeps his readers deep into the realm of the jaguar, offering fascinating accounts from the field. Enhanced with maps, tables, and color plates, An Indomitable Beast brings important new research to life for scientists, anthropologists, and animal lovers alike.

    This book is not only about jaguars, but also about tenacity and survival. From the jaguar we can learn better strategies for saving other species and also how to save ourselves when faced with immediate and long-term catastrophic changes to our environment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateSep 2, 2014
    ISBN9781610912273
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    An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar
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    Alan Rabinowitz

    Dr. Alan Rabinowtiz has dedicated his life to two causes: protecting the world's thirty-six wild cat species and advocating for stutterers as a spokesperson for the Stuttering Foundation of America. His conservation work has been chronicled in the New York Times, Scientific American, Audobon, Outside, Jerusalem Report and National Geographic Explorer, among others. He tells audiences that he feels lucky to have been given the gift of stuttering and believes that without it, he would not be on the path of his passion--saving big cats. This is his first book with Houghton Mifflin. Vist www.panthera.org and www.stutteringhelp.org.

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      When Alan Rabinowitz was young, he was shy and couldn't speak well. On a trip to the Bronx Zoo he felt a connection with the jaguar there, and when he grew up he became a world-renowned conservation biologist working with jaguars in Belize. This book talks about jaguars in captivity, their history in the world, and current(ish) efforts to keep them from extinction. I only read the first 4 chapters of this book, and the last chapter. I did not care for it much at all. The writing is not very accessible (speaking as a reader who is very familiar with the work of conservation biologists, and with reading scientific papers) an could not keep my interest. I did not care for Rabinowitz at all. He is very disdainful of non-scientist humans, particularly those living in the South American countries where jaguars roam, and insensitive to the point of being borderline racist. Also a lot of the premise of the book is that jaguars are ~*~special~*~, which I just don't buy. I think it's more likely that Rabinowitz views them as special because he has studied them extensively, not the other way around.I don't doubt that Rabinowitz is doing great work for jaguars and other South American animals and plants, but I don't plan to read any more of his own writing.